May 22, 2010, Saturday

Your chronicle of the Shoels family and their public response to the tragedy serves to underscore how hollow and moot acrimony can be. I can't help feeling that people like Geoffrey Fieger fuel the fires of our blame-centered society and offer...

It is ironic to see Geoffrey Fieger trying to pin responsibility for the Columbine murders on the killers' parents when he has made a career out of espousing individual responsibility for one's own actions.

On a warm Tuesday night in September, 120 people, nearly all African-American, fill the echoing auditorium at the Masonic Temple in Brooklyn. ''No Weapons Allowed, Persons Subject to Scanning'' warns a faded sign at the door, and the words have...

School district officials said today that the English teacher of Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris warned their parents one month before their shooting attack about the violent nature of their sons' writings at Columbine High School. Dylan Klebold's...

A former lawyer for Dr. Jack Kevorkian and a legal scholar who knows him said his plan to represent himself in court to face a first-degree murder charge was a mistake. ''I can tell you what the results will be if he represents himself,'' the...

November 27, 1998, Friday

Gov. John Engler, the Republican, easily won a third term in a campaign in which the Democrat, Geoffrey Fieger, seemed to be running not so much against the incumbent as against his own very feisty mouth. Among other things, Mr. Fieger had called Mr....

Gov. John Engler, the Republican, won a third term in a campaign made lively, if not competitive, by the outspokenness of the Democrat, Geoffrey Fieger. The Engler campaign suggested that Mr. Fieger was running against his own mouth. Mr. Fieger...

November 4, 1998, Wednesday

What do you do in politics when your opponent is beating you 2 to 1 in the polls and 65 percent of all voters say they have an ''unfavorable'' view of you -- the election equivalent of being ''hated,'' as one pollster put it? If you are Geoffrey...

Few candidates have been more outrageously outspoken this year than Geoffrey Fieger, who aspires to be Michigan's governor after building a reputation as a lawyer for Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the advocate and practitioner of physician-assisted suicide. ...